No such thing as a global gas price. Natural gas pricing is regional as it cannot be easily transported.

US exported 6.9 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in 2022.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/natural-gas/imports-and-...

The article says nothing about the cost of shipping gas across the globe. It only says 44% of exports are by pipeline.

If shipping makes it an order of magnitude more expensive, then there is no global price.

Order of magnitude?

Large (not ultra large) oil tankers might carry 200,000 tonnes and consume 25 ton of heavy bunker fuel per day.

LNG gas carriers equally have their own stats.

This is something you can (or at the very least should be able to) back of envelope estimate ...

https://www.planete-energies.com/en/media/article/transporti...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%A4rtsil%C3%A4-Sulzer_RTA9...

Now you just need mean trip times, profit margin, etc. and you're away.

Order of magnitude addition to costs, though, sounds a little extreme.

Once the pipe is built, the maintenance cost is very low, much lower than maintaining and using a tanker.

When ships were attacked in the red sea they started diverting. When nordstream blew up that was it. Something to take into account, at least.

> When nordstream blew up that was it.

True but it was turned off some time before that happened

“Europe remained the main destination for U.S. LNG exports in December, with 5.43 MT, or just over 61%. In November, 68% of U.S. LNG exports were to Europe, LSEG data showed.”

Of course there is a global market for all fossil fuels.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-was-top-lng-expor....

Yea at rather insane prices due to the Ukraine war.

In 2022 the US imported 3 trillion CF, exported 6.9 trillion cubic feet, and extracted 43.8 trillion CF.

By comparison in 2015 we only exported 1.8 trillion CF.

Also known as "the price" for anyone who doesn't sit on massive gas deposits

Australia exports 41% of its gas.